It's finally here. The newly Revamped Respect Thread for The Mighty Thor. Unfortunately, the older one was a bit too scattered and had too many broken links for my taste.

I would have liked to limit this to just classic Thor. But Thor's gone through so many incarnations and changes that are in-continuity, I've had to account for some. However, feats by alternate reality incarnations and future versions that were never to be, have been left out of this. It's about classic and current Thor, who as of the date of this thread, are essentially the same. Incarnations like King Thor, Rune King Thor and Odinforce Thor have been well-documented in the other respect thread and I reference them in the Essential Thor section.

Also, this respect thread is as much about Mjolnir as it is about Thor. After all, they are so associated with each other that their respective powers have historically been confused or projected onto each other. Hopefully, separating them out will serve to undo some preconceptions. Enjoy it and feel free to post more scans yourself. But do try to make sure you don't double up on them and leave King Thor, Rune King Thor and Odinforce Thor's feats elsewhere. To better help avoid duplication, every single scan cites an issue #. So if you're not sure whether a scan that you have is not displayed here, try running an advanced search with the title, issue # and posted by me to do a quick reference check. As the rules state, trolling and disrespect will not be tolerated.

After the villain, Graviton, finds his powers uncontrollable, he compresses an entire floating city into a sphere, and Thor, along with several other Avengers, find themselves supporting and then heaving millions of tons of weight into the Atlantic, from Avengers #159:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...Avengers159.jpg

Thor's godly durability has resisted a variety of forces. First, it's appropriate to dispel the myth that Thor cannot resist bullets. While he does usually block them with Mjolnir, his skin is literally bullet-proof, from Thor #315:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...ojectile315.jpg

As for more exotic forces, Thor's durability has defied a variety of other forces, including spatial ones. Here, the Space Phantom's attempt to replace Thor's body and transport his to Limbo backfires, from Avengers #2:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...Avengers002.jpg

While character talk can be cheap, Thor's speed has always been astonishing to his opponents. The original Black Knight shoots bolas from his lance that are literally surrounding Thor, but because of his speed, Thor knocks the lance away and evades capture. Black Knight exclaims, "I've never seen such speed... such power!!" From Avengers #6:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...Avengers006.jpg

Here, while fending off two Herald-level foes, Adam Warlock likens his ability to catch his staff mid-swing and his combat speed to that of lightning, "He moves like the lightning he commands, much quicker than I remember." From Infinity Watch #23:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...nityWatch23.jpg

But he has more than just subjective exclamations (no matter how reliable the speaker). What everyone really cares about are the more objective and reliable speed feats. One reliable type of speed feat is where the character moves so fast that they become a blur of motion or move too fast to be seen. Here, Thor fights Heimdall and swings his hammer down on him at speeds "moving too swiftly for the eye to follow," even too fast for Heimdall in Journey Into Mystery #125:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...eed06JIM125.jpg

But even superspeedsters can job and it's difficult to quantify exactly how fast they are going in each instance. But Thor does have directly measurable superspeed feats. Here, he literally snatches a fired tank shell out of mid-air with his bare hand in Journey Into Mystery #93:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...peed02JIM93.jpg

Here, we see Thor flying outside a window and when Jane Foster gets his attention, Thor manages to intercept Cobra's poison dart within a split-second. The dart is fired before he even is inside the room, just to give you the proper frame of reference to understand the speed and reflexes necessary in Journey Into Mystery #98:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...peed03JIM98.jpg

Here, in the space of one and one-fifth seconds, Thor dives out of the sky, smashes Mjolnir down and causes a shockwave to divert a runaway truck from killing a young boy ACROSS the city in Journey Into Mystery #108:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...eed04JIM108.jpg

Here, Thor's able to swat away a torrent of flying bricks that used to be half a building, not allowing any of them to pass through in the space of milliseconds. To give you a reference as to how fast he's swinging his arms back and forth, check out panels three and four. Notice how far a speedblitzing Gladiator advances between Thor's swings! From Thor vol. 2 #34:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...speed28v234.jpg

Now we all know Thor has stopped bullets and energy beams by spinning Mjolnir around. And it's been argued that he has to do that because he's not fast enough to block them traditionally with Mjolnir or bat them away. After all, he'd require faster than bullet ("FTB") and faster than light ("FTL") combat speed reflexes to do so. However, these next scans should dispel ANY doubt whether he does possess FTB or FTL combat speed reflexes since he deflects bullets and energy blasts by moving or swinging Mjolnir once rather than by spinning Mjolnir. Here, with FTB speed, he deflects two bullets with a single swing way back in Journey Into Mystery #100:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...ed03aJIM100.jpg

Phoenix shoots a telepathic blast at a groggy Thor at the moment Thor's arms are at his side. AFTER the shot is fired and already traveling at him, Thor raises his arms and reflects it back with Mjolnir. Telepathy being instantaneous traditionally (as noted in the narration), we can assume for the sake of argument that it was only traveling at light-speed, making this another FTL feat, from Excalibur #428:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...rspeed18428.jpg

While not easily apparent, Thor does have traditional superpowers that are not dependent on Mjolnir. He is after all, the God of Thunder, and he's fired lightning bolts from his hands in Journey Into Mystery #93:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...ing01JIM093.jpg

Interacting with the mortals of Earth, perspective can be lost when dealing with how powerful an actual God of Thunder is. And that's just what he is: a god. An immortal. He's lived thousands of years.

Thor has to attune his immortal mind and spirit to be able to interact coherently with a mortal world. Indeed, this was exactly why Odin sent him to Earth and gave him his Donald Blake persona: to live like a mortal and understand mortality. It was Thor's purpose on Marvel Earth. Some might think this idea to be apologist in tone, but it's true: Thor does hold back his full power. Here it is spelled out first in Avengers #149:

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The anger he felt at himself in the above scene manifested by his quitting the Avengers, returning to Asgard and not appearing on Earth for an entire year (and several publishing years in fact). However, this nature of his persists to this very day and became a recurring theme in his adventures. He is, in fact, just that powerful and to live on Earth, he must hold back. He certainly must restrain himself against foes of lesser stature, such as Puma, from Avengers #304:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...Avengers304.jpg

So now that we've seen enough about Thor, let's turn to Mjolnir. Mjolnir is one of the strongest weapons wielded in the Marvel Universe. It was forged by the dwarves from mystical uru and imbued with the Odinforce. From Thor's very first appearance in Journey Into Mystery #83, Mjolnir's had certain distinctive qualities that have remained virtually unchanged.

The third was Eric Masterson, a mere architect from New York who sacrificed himself fighting for Thor's life. This event would later lead him and Thor to merge and then for a while, for Masterson to take over his duties on Earth, from Thor #408:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...hantment408.jpg

And while the whole being pulled along by it sounds extremely inconvenient and would suggest that Thor's incapable of changing directions, we see here that isn't the case where he swirls around Surtur in Thor #338:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...rSpeed02338.jpg

The speed at which it returns can vary also. Here, Mjolnir travels to and back from the farthest reaches of the galaxy in less than sixty seconds. The speed it's travelling at is many billions the times of light speed, from Thor: Whom The Gods Would Destroy:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...theGodsWoul.jpg

As to the sheer magnitude of those storms, Thor's summoned them in Asgard and they were felt as far away as Earth to catastrophic effects whereby skyscrapers were toppled and mountain peaks destroyed (afterwards Odin undoes all the damage), from Thor #188:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...69-Storm188.jpg

Now Mjolnir doesn't just draw in and amplify energy sources from without, but also from within Thor himself. Here, he draws upon all of his own immortal energies and reamplifies them through Mjolnir in a devastating attack dubbed the Godblast to defeat Galactus in Thor #161:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...Godblast161.jpg

Mjolnir's striking power is also legendary. It's always been consistently portrayed as immense and irresistible. When it strikes a tank here, the "vibration causes the very molecules of the steel itself to disassemble and fall apart!" From Journey Into Mystery #84:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...rikingPower.jpg

Paying attention to the description in the panels, Thor destroys a falling mountain peak that is big enough to squash a citadel "roughly the size of Chicago." He reduces it to rubble with a single Mjolnir throw in Secret Wars #3:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...ngPowerSW03.jpg

While on the higher end, when attacking a Celestial with all his might and donning his Belt of Strength, a Mjolnir swing causes mountaintops to be instantly destroyed and "the entire planet is rocked by its brutal reverberations!" From Thor #388:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...ingPower388.jpg

And when you double the striking power of Mjolnir? You get a shockwave of enchanted energy that reverberates throughout "the length and breadth of the entire cosmos" and "simultaneously across all planes of reality!" From Thor #439:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...ingPower439.jpg

These latter powers of freezing time weren't stripped along with Mjolnir's time-travelling capabilities. This is inarguable because a whole decade after Thor #282, Thor again freezes time around the Black Knight with a "time dislocation" in Avengers #300:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...texAvengers.jpg

And whoever said Thor wasn't resourceful? Here, when fighting Varnae, the First Vampire and Lord of Vampires, he opens a cosmic rift exposing the very face of the Sun, pouring pure sunlight onto Varnae, in Marvel Comics Presents #63:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...VortexMCP63.jpg

And now for a look back at Thor's first encounters with Mjolnir. As told in Thor: Son of Asgard #1-12. In this storyline, we see a young Thor and the trials he goes through to wield Mjolnir for the first time.

A great read, I'd encourage you to try and pick up a back copy or newstand read it at a bookstore in trade. The following are a few snippets to give you a feel for the story and get a glimpse at the very first time that Thor picks up Mjolnir and what it takes to do so:

As part of Avengers Disassembled, Ragnarok, the end of the world foretold in Norse myth, is once again unleashed upon Asgard. Guided by the Odinpower incarnated as an orphaned boy, Thor learns that Ragnarok is a cosmic cycle which generates life energy for the Old Gods, Those Who Sit Above In Shadow. Each cycle reduces the worth and glory of those who live through them.

Odin saw a way to break the cycle. He planted the seeds in Thor, who draws his strength from both God and Man -- whose ways Those Who Sit Above In Shadow could not predict would be their undoing, from Thor vol. 2 #80-85:

Years after breaking the cycles of Ragnarok, Thor is summoned from the void by Donald Blake. Utterly alone but still possessing a portion of the Odinforce, Thor decides to restore Asgard for one final time, giving a chance for all the immortal Asgardians to live a meaningful life on the mortal plane, free from cycles, from Thor vol. 3 #1-6:

I'll very likely come back and post more glimpses of these storylines to give people more of a feel for Thor and Mjolnir's history. In the meantime, here's a look at what the future holds for Thor and Mjolnir.

After an epic battle, Mjolnir lies broken like never before. He goes to his old ally, Dr. Strange, to restore it with the Odinforce and Thor's fate and Mjolnir's become even more entertwined, from Thor #601:

What can I say? Here they are. The most iconic and epic fights in Thor's appearances across 1000+ comics. Thor's rogues gallery is one of the most extensive and powerful among comic characters. I couldn't post all his fights (and noticeably left out those which he fights alongside fellow Avengers), but I hope that I've posted enough. Let's get started.